Garfield County Jail Inmate Lookup

Garfield County Jail Overview

Garfield County Jail is operated by the Garfield County Sheriff's Office and is located at 375 North 700 West in Panguitch. Official county material names Eric Houston as sheriff, and the official jail page names Jason Miller as jail commander. The jail handles local Garfield County custody and also participates in the Utah Department of Corrections Inmate Placement Program, so the same building may involve both local jail records and state-supervised offender records.

The local jail is the correct starting point for a recent arrest, pretrial hold, short county sentence, or same-day custody question. The Utah Department of Corrections Offender Search is a separate path for people already under UDC incarceration, probation, or parole supervision. Federal Bureau of Prisons and ICE locators apply only when a person has moved into federal sentenced custody or immigration custody.

The official Garfield County Jail page lists visitation, mail, and facility information for the Panguitch jail. The screenshot below shows the local source families should check before arranging a visit or sending mail.

That jail page is useful for facility rules, but it is not an online jail roster. For custody status, use the phone, GRAMA, NCIC account tools, UDC, VINE, Xchange, BOP, or ICE route that matches the person's custody stage.

Garfield County Jail Capacity and Population

The best sourced facility capacity numbers come from the Utah Department of Corrections FY2024 Jail Programs Booklet, published in April 2025. UDC lists Garfield County Jail with 114 total jail beds, 96 contracted beds, and 96 beds available for housing to corrections. The same source identifies male housing and gives Garfield County Jail contract and programming details under Utah's county-jail placement model.

No official live daily Garfield County Jail population count or public roster count was located in the sheriff or county sources reviewed. Historical datasets list earlier jail population and capacity figures, but the current facility page should treat the FY2024 UDC booklet as the strongest recent source for bed and contract capacity.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Garfield County Jail

No official online Garfield County Jail roster, booking report, current-inmates page, or mugshot gallery was located on the sheriff site, jail page, or county sheriff page. That means the lookup process starts with the sheriff/jail and then moves outward only if the person is in a different custody system.

1. Call Garfield County Sheriff/Jail at 435-676-2678 for a current custody check or routing to the jail desk. The official sources reviewed do not publish a separate booking-desk number.
2. If the jail cannot release the detail by phone, submit a sheriff GRAMA records request. Include the person's name, approximate booking date, case number if known, and the exact record requested.
3. Use NCIC's Garfield County Jail page for communication or account funding after selecting the facility and detainee. Do not treat NCIC as a complete public custody profile.
4. Search the UDC Offender Search when the person is sentenced, incarcerated under UDC, or on UDC probation or parole. UDC says its search excludes people awaiting trial or not yet sentenced in county jail.
5. Use Utah VINE for custody or case notifications, and use Utah Courts Xchange for filed court charges after prosecution begins.
6. Use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator only if federal sentenced custody or immigration custody is plausible.

The UDC offender search screenshot in the manifest is tied to the official state locator. It is relevant to Garfield County Jail because the facility can house UDC-supervised people by contract, but the state search is not a substitute for a same-day county jail custody call.

Use the state locator when the person has moved past local pretrial custody into UDC supervision. For a fresh Garfield County arrest, the county jail and sheriff records process remain the better first stop.

Garfield County Jail Address and Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the Panguitch facility address. Use the main phone for custody questions, visitation confirmation, mail questions, and records routing. The county government sheriff page lists the sheriff's office mailing address as PO Box 370, Panguitch, UT 84759, and the jail page gives the same jail mailing address for legal and medical mail.

Visiting Someone at Garfield County Jail

The official jail page lists visitation Thursday through Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Visitors must have picture identification. Cell phones and cameras are not allowed during visits, and the jail states it may refuse any visit and may search visitors. No official visit-length limit, child-visitor rule, dress code, remote-video schedule, holiday schedule, or lockdown procedure was located, so confirm the day's rules before traveling to Panguitch.

Mail, NCIC Messaging, and Money at Garfield County Jail

Garfield County's jail page says the sheriff's office moved inmate mail and messaging to a system intended to keep contraband out of the jail. Since December 1, 2023, all inmate mail except legal and medical mail must be sent to the Longview, Texas processing address. Processed mail is electronically delivered to the inmate, then destroyed, and the jail page says it will not be returned or released.

The official jail page links NCIC for inmate messaging. It says users can create an account to send messages for instant delivery, with text messages priced at $0.25 each and picture messages or documents priced at $0.35 each. Tiger Commissary also has a Garfield County Jail web-deposit page for inmate trust-fund deposits; the public manifest source did not locate a transaction-fee schedule.

The NCIC Garfield County Jail add-funds page confirms the facility is configured in NCIC and includes detainee-selection and account-funding steps.

NCIC can support communication and account activity, but the inspected public page does not show booking charges, bond, court dates, housing assignments, or a full roster profile.

The Tiger Commissary Garfield County Jail page is the matching vendor source for web deposits to an inmate trust account.

Tiger is a deposit channel, not a jail-record source. Use it after confirming the person and facility through the jail or the appropriate custody system.

Booking, Intake, and Records Requests

No official Garfield County page located during research published a step-by-step local booking process, roster posting delay, medical-screening procedure, classification method, property-release policy, or bond-payment instruction. Supported facts are narrower: the sheriff operates the jail, custody records may be requested through the sheriff's GRAMA process, court charges should be checked through Utah Courts Xchange after filing, and UDC placement becomes relevant when a person is under state supervision.

For records not available online, the sheriff's GRAMA page and form are the practical local fallback. The research notes say the sheriff may take up to 10 business days from submission to respond or release records, and the office requires identification before releasing private or protected records under Utah GRAMA rules. The form allows requesters to describe the record or case number, which is the right place to ask for a booking record, release record, incident report, or booking photograph if one is releasable.

Programs, Jobs, and UDC Contract Role

Garfield County Jail has more program detail than many small county facilities because UDC reports it as a county jail contract facility. UDC lists substance-use treatment, high school completion, aftercare, anger management, building trades, carpentry, AutoCAD, criminal thinking, culinary arts, welding, Inside Out Dad, Moral Reconation Therapy, parenting, relapse prevention, religious services, and other classes or activities.

UDC's FY2024 material lists 55 inmate jobs at Garfield County Jail and describes work such as kitchen, laundry, commissary, janitorial, maintenance, road crew, print shop, car wash, barber, teacher assistant, and windshield repair. The same UDC reporting includes 11 high school or Utah H.S. completion diplomas, 63 Dare to Soar successful transitions, seven volunteers providing 80 service hours per month, and work-program savings estimates for inside and outside work.

State, Federal, and ICE Transfers

No UDC-operated state prison, BOP prison, ICE detention facility, separate municipal jail, regional jail, work-release building, or official USMS detention contract facility was found physically in Garfield County from official sources. If a person is no longer reachable through the county jail, that does not mean the record is unavailable; it may mean a different agency now controls custody.

Directions and Visitor Planning

Use 375 North 700 West, Panguitch, UT 84759 for map and routing. Panguitch sits along the US-89 corridor, and the jail is in the county seat. Visitors coming from Bryce Canyon, UT-12, Escalante, Boulder, or other eastern Garfield County communities may face long rural drives, winter weather, wildfire closures, or tourist-season congestion, so confirmation by phone matters when a visit is time-sensitive.

Official jail and county pages reviewed did not publish visitor parking rates, overflow parking, public transit instructions, ADA entrance details, or alternative-weather directions. Call the facility before leaving if accessible entry, mobility assistance, road conditions, or visit availability could affect the trip.